real dogs are cute and warm. robot dogs are cold and look robotic. The basic thing is I *can't* love a robot dog the same way I love my dog at home. Yeah, real dogs maybe harder to train, they might need to be housebroken, but so are human babies. We all complain how hard it is to raise kids, but do we even think about replacing them with robotic counterparts? I guess a robotic dog could work as a viable "man's best friend" for someone. But, real dogs all the way for me.
If you've done nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide, and applaud this system for making the streets safer for our children
wow, two bullshit arguments in one sentance. I've heard these arguments used so many times for just about every justification for infringing our personal liberties (the drug war, carnivore, etc.) I'm an innocent person, but I fear the law enforcement of this land, and this thing makes me fear them even more. You say they aren't the judge, jury, and executioner, but whose to say they won't be treated that way. And oh, let's not forget the fucking children. I can't wait until they start monitoring "bad" subcultures who supposadly do "bad" things (goths, ravers, punks, people who *might* look like they're in a gang). I have many things to fear from this, and I would fear for my children's safety as well. This will be abused, and in the hands of our law enforcement this is one dangerous tool.
japan has already said fuck you to amazon over thier "one-click", so sony could thearitically just sell its infringing products outside of the us. Though this looks like a valid patent on not software(aka bullshit) patent, so it may not be in their best interests to do that. They still could if they wanted to, though.
Of course, that's assuming that you think that XP is "good" software. I don't think it is, and I would recommend to everyone I know to avoid it like the plague. But even if it was "good" software. I have my own reasons for minimizing the use of ms products on my computer, and that's to protest the ms's absolutely despicable business practices. To say that I'm wrong for doing so is ludricous. So, by that logic, I would be wrong in boycotting prodcuts by Phillip Morris, whose ciagrrettes kill tons of people each year, because their products are "good", I'm an evil person? Give me a fucking break.
Anyway, you seem to be confusing boycotting with government intervention(which i do not support). People who boycott choose to do so, and do not interfere with the rights of others. Boycotting merely means that they are encouraging others to do so, but do not force them to.
well, this isn't very important. the x-box probably wasn't going to do well in japan, anyway, even if it had come out on time. The Japanese game market is already has a huge war going on with Sony and Nintendo, and quite frankly, no one over there really give's a rat's ass about the X-box. All this does is just seal its fate.
i'd just like to see them punished for what they did to spyglass. This whole bundling thing i could care less, but if this gives justice for spyglass, then so be it.
I think a fitting punishment(though not really a punishment, just enforcing what should have been done in the first place), is that they should pay royalties to spyglass for all sales of windows. Why? well, they're agreement was: royalties for all sales from internet explorer. Well, since it has been stated time and time again that IE *is* part of the Windows OS, then they should be entitled to royalties from all windows OS sales(except for NT and Win95, since IE isn't "tied" to those OSs). Fair enough?
If it wasn't for MS, would Linus have been motivated to create Linux, a free alternative? Would there still be a strong open-source movement?
i don't believe that was his motivation in the first place. his motivation was to get a flavor of unix he liked, not that he had to make a better os than windows. trust me, we would still have linux today if ms didn't exist. maybe it might not have been as good as it is now, maybe it might have been better, who knows? but to say it wouldn't have existed if ms didn't is just plain ignorant.
as far as i can tell, there are none. remember that this legislation was pushed heavily by the MPAA and the RIAA. they don't care to concern themselves that this might target innocent people, and probably would have opposed any ammendments to the DMCA that would have that effect.
I do believe that international patent law should be different, but believing that a law should be different is never a good reason to break it.
that's all the more reason to break it. sometimes lobbying and reasoning only get you so far. sometimes you just gotta say "fuck you, i won't do what you tell me." Otherwise, you just get stuck with dumb laws, and they will never get changed.
I'm sure, though, when pre-done petition mailings are done, they do make some sort of effort to make sure that they are from valid addresses and they are from cities that actually exist.
if i did this, i sure as hell would be guilty of fraud. Why does Microsoft allowed to get away with this? Wait, don't answer, because I know why, but shit, it does piss me off.
How about major label record contracts that pay artists next to nothing for their hard work and then lock them into indentured service for years, with no way of getting out, and in some cases, can cost you a hell of a lot more than just the rights to your music. Now that's viral.
Some companies are doing things for linux gamers. Bioware is releasing Neverwinter Nights, which could arguably be the best rpg ever released, is going to be released for linux as well as windows, and most likely it will use opengl(is there another graphics api that does 3d in linux?). Nvidia is giving full OpenGL support in their chipsets. And let's not forget the guys at ID love opengl as well. Even if their numbers are few, there are people who still want to keep OpenGL alive, and they are pretty big names is the gaming industry.
This is really going to hurt ms.
on
$1200 Cheap!
·
· Score: 1
I have a news flash for Microsoft: the windows strategy will not work for the X-box. The worst possible thing that microsoft could do is hike the price of getting an X-box up. This only makes the game cube even more appealing to gamers now. Why pay $500+ for games you may not even want, when you can pay $199 for a Game Cube and purchase the games separately that you want separately. It's certainly legal to do this, but it is dumb, dumb, dumb.
Really, all you "the government is overstepping its bounds" people really need to look at the big picture here. Really, what is the difference between "government power" and "corporate power"? With government power at least can be controlled to some degree by the people(in theory anyways, but corporate power interferes with our elections as well). When corporate power is abused(and i believe ms is guilty of that, but not for trivial "bundling" issues, rather for other reasons), it deserves to be smacked down, as such when government power is abused. Of course, i never thought that it should be something drastic liek splitting them up, but at least some sort of punishment should be placed against them. Call me a hypocrite if you like(libertarian sig at the bottom), but this is my take on it.
yeah your right they are. but the there is also the case that people are using this program to do illegal activities and i would bet you that over 80% of the people have downloaded illegal materials off of the program.
The way i see it, if there is nothing illegal about the inherent abilities of the program, then the people who created it are not responsible for it in any way for any "illegal activities" that occur. Do we charge gunmakers with murder every time someone commits a murder with a gun(I suppose if you were a liberal you'd agree with that statement, but maybe you'll see my point)? By your logic, we should also go after the people who made CD-Rs, FTP software, and the Copy command. That is how i'm interpeting what you said, so correct me if i'm wrong. Anyway, the main idea here is personal responsibilty. Those who are the ones actually committing the copyright infringement, not the people who made the program. Until you can prove to me that the process of sharing one file to another computer is illegal, you still have no case, and neither those the recording industry of korea. As for filter, it is not possible on a decentralized network. The max you can go is a text based filter, which is very easily defeated by pig-latin. And unlike napster, there is no way to police it.
But the fact is that when you log on and let people download those mp3s that are copyrighted you are trafficing stolen goods in a sense.
The 2 koreans aren't the ones trafficing, they are the ones renting the "trucks", so to speak. The truck renters have no control over how the truck is used. If someone decided to transport illegal goods, then the person driving the truck is responsible, not the truck renters. Once again, personal responsibility is the main idea here.
the issue of whether it is stealing to download mp3s is not the issue at hand, and as far as this case is concerned, completely irrelevant. the real issue is that 2 people in korea are being charged with copyright violations because other people used their program illegally. Now let's look at the facts:
Is the mp3 format illegal? no.
What does this program these koreans made do? Let's you search for and transfer files from one machine to another.
Is the inherent ability to search for and transfer files from one computer to another illegal? no.
So what we have here is the riaa in korea persecuting 2 people because some people use their program for illegal purposes, and on the side they're making up figures to justify their case.
let's pray these guys don't get busted by the courts. if they do, then the riaa over here will have an excuse to go after the people who created all the gnutella clones. Yes, yes, you say no big deal now, since you still have your software, but what about when software we use will be declared illegal? It will be a sad, sad day when software creators can be held accountable for other people using their programs illegally.
Hardware enforcing copyright?? I think not.
on
Taming the Web
·
· Score: 1
People simply won't buy those kinds of products. Last time I checked, you can still connect to the net with any type of hardware, provided you have the hardware necessary to make the connection. If you start making it so that you can only connect with say a "copyright compliant" HD or whatever, you will have a consumer revolt. And what of the Linux people? Make their stuff unable to connect to the net and I assure you there will be a revolt. a very violent one.
the label is run by the singer of NoFX, pretty much the only band whose built a pretty large fanbase despite outright refusing any major label/mtv/radio support. He's said his philosophy is that he only puts out "what he thinks is good, not if it'll sell or not." as opposed to the major label mentality of "your music is shit, but we'll put it out anyway because it'll sell." Of course, if you're not into punk music, you're going to have to look elsewhere. I'm sure there are enough people in most of the genres that could form independant labels like that.
Slashdot Mirror
real dogs are cute and warm. robot dogs are cold and look robotic. The basic thing is I *can't* love a robot dog the same way I love my dog at home. Yeah, real dogs maybe harder to train, they might need to be housebroken, but so are human babies. We all complain how hard it is to raise kids, but do we even think about replacing them with robotic counterparts? I guess a robotic dog could work as a viable "man's best friend" for someone. But, real dogs all the way for me.
my dog drooled on it, causing a short circuit.
wow, two bullshit arguments in one sentance. I've heard these arguments used so many times for just about every justification for infringing our personal liberties (the drug war, carnivore, etc.) I'm an innocent person, but I fear the law enforcement of this land, and this thing makes me fear them even more. You say they aren't the judge, jury, and executioner, but whose to say they won't be treated that way. And oh, let's not forget the fucking children. I can't wait until they start monitoring "bad" subcultures who supposadly do "bad" things (goths, ravers, punks, people who *might* look like they're in a gang). I have many things to fear from this, and I would fear for my children's safety as well. This will be abused, and in the hands of our law enforcement this is one dangerous tool.
japan has already said fuck you to amazon over thier "one-click", so sony could thearitically just sell its infringing products outside of the us. Though this looks like a valid patent on not software(aka bullshit) patent, so it may not be in their best interests to do that. They still could if they wanted to, though.
The Alternative: DON'T UPGRADE TO XP. Keep 2k/98 if you want.
Anyway, you seem to be confusing boycotting with government intervention(which i do not support). People who boycott choose to do so, and do not interfere with the rights of others. Boycotting merely means that they are encouraging others to do so, but do not force them to.
looks like ms is really testing the limits of their PR team. Maybe they might meet their match this time.
well, this isn't very important. the x-box probably wasn't going to do well in japan, anyway, even if it had come out on time. The Japanese game market is already has a huge war going on with Sony and Nintendo, and quite frankly, no one over there really give's a rat's ass about the X-box. All this does is just seal its fate.
I think a fitting punishment(though not really a punishment, just enforcing what should have been done in the first place), is that they should pay royalties to spyglass for all sales of windows. Why? well, they're agreement was: royalties for all sales from internet explorer. Well, since it has been stated time and time again that IE *is* part of the Windows OS, then they should be entitled to royalties from all windows OS sales(except for NT and Win95, since IE isn't "tied" to those OSs). Fair enough?
i don't believe that was his motivation in the first place. his motivation was to get a flavor of unix he liked, not that he had to make a better os than windows. trust me, we would still have linux today if ms didn't exist. maybe it might not have been as good as it is now, maybe it might have been better, who knows? but to say it wouldn't have existed if ms didn't is just plain ignorant.
as far as i can tell, there are none. remember that this legislation was pushed heavily by the MPAA and the RIAA. they don't care to concern themselves that this might target innocent people, and probably would have opposed any ammendments to the DMCA that would have that effect.
that's all the more reason to break it. sometimes lobbying and reasoning only get you so far. sometimes you just gotta say "fuck you, i won't do what you tell me." Otherwise, you just get stuck with dumb laws, and they will never get changed.
I'm sure, though, when pre-done petition mailings are done, they do make some sort of effort to make sure that they are from valid addresses and they are from cities that actually exist.
if i did this, i sure as hell would be guilty of fraud. Why does Microsoft allowed to get away with this? Wait, don't answer, because I know why, but shit, it does piss me off.
How about major label record contracts that pay artists next to nothing for their hard work and then lock them into indentured service for years, with no way of getting out, and in some cases, can cost you a hell of a lot more than just the rights to your music. Now that's viral.
once again, i'm going to repeat this:
unless you can prove to me that the mp3 file format is illegal, you have no case.
Some companies are doing things for linux gamers. Bioware is releasing Neverwinter Nights, which could arguably be the best rpg ever released, is going to be released for linux as well as windows, and most likely it will use opengl(is there another graphics api that does 3d in linux?). Nvidia is giving full OpenGL support in their chipsets. And let's not forget the guys at ID love opengl as well. Even if their numbers are few, there are people who still want to keep OpenGL alive, and they are pretty big names is the gaming industry.
I have a news flash for Microsoft: the windows strategy will not work for the X-box. The worst possible thing that microsoft could do is hike the price of getting an X-box up. This only makes the game cube even more appealing to gamers now. Why pay $500+ for games you may not even want, when you can pay $199 for a Game Cube and purchase the games separately that you want separately. It's certainly legal to do this, but it is dumb, dumb, dumb.
Really, all you "the government is overstepping its bounds" people really need to look at the big picture here. Really, what is the difference between "government power" and "corporate power"? With government power at least can be controlled to some degree by the people(in theory anyways, but corporate power interferes with our elections as well). When corporate power is abused(and i believe ms is guilty of that, but not for trivial "bundling" issues, rather for other reasons), it deserves to be smacked down, as such when government power is abused. Of course, i never thought that it should be something drastic liek splitting them up, but at least some sort of punishment should be placed against them. Call me a hypocrite if you like(libertarian sig at the bottom), but this is my take on it.
it's the same basic program.
The way i see it, if there is nothing illegal about the inherent abilities of the program, then the people who created it are not responsible for it in any way for any "illegal activities" that occur. Do we charge gunmakers with murder every time someone commits a murder with a gun(I suppose if you were a liberal you'd agree with that statement, but maybe you'll see my point)? By your logic, we should also go after the people who made CD-Rs, FTP software, and the Copy command. That is how i'm interpeting what you said, so correct me if i'm wrong. Anyway, the main idea here is personal responsibilty. Those who are the ones actually committing the copyright infringement, not the people who made the program. Until you can prove to me that the process of sharing one file to another computer is illegal, you still have no case, and neither those the recording industry of korea. As for filter, it is not possible on a decentralized network. The max you can go is a text based filter, which is very easily defeated by pig-latin. And unlike napster, there is no way to police it.
But the fact is that when you log on and let people download those mp3s that are copyrighted you are trafficing stolen goods in a sense.
The 2 koreans aren't the ones trafficing, they are the ones renting the "trucks", so to speak. The truck renters have no control over how the truck is used. If someone decided to transport illegal goods, then the person driving the truck is responsible, not the truck renters. Once again, personal responsibility is the main idea here.
Is the mp3 format illegal? no.
What does this program these koreans made do? Let's you search for and transfer files from one machine to another.
Is the inherent ability to search for and transfer files from one computer to another illegal? no.
So what we have here is the riaa in korea persecuting 2 people because some people use their program for illegal purposes, and on the side they're making up figures to justify their case.
let's pray these guys don't get busted by the courts. if they do, then the riaa over here will have an excuse to go after the people who created all the gnutella clones. Yes, yes, you say no big deal now, since you still have your software, but what about when software we use will be declared illegal? It will be a sad, sad day when software creators can be held accountable for other people using their programs illegally.
People simply won't buy those kinds of products. Last time I checked, you can still connect to the net with any type of hardware, provided you have the hardware necessary to make the connection. If you start making it so that you can only connect with say a "copyright compliant" HD or whatever, you will have a consumer revolt. And what of the Linux people? Make their stuff unable to connect to the net and I assure you there will be a revolt. a very violent one.
the label is run by the singer of NoFX, pretty much the only band whose built a pretty large fanbase despite outright refusing any major label/mtv/radio support. He's said his philosophy is that he only puts out "what he thinks is good, not if it'll sell or not." as opposed to the major label mentality of "your music is shit, but we'll put it out anyway because it'll sell." Of course, if you're not into punk music, you're going to have to look elsewhere. I'm sure there are enough people in most of the genres that could form independant labels like that.